Next time you call a talk radio station, beware: The FBI may be listening.

According to WMAL.com, "The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.

The FBI says it is not playing Big Brother by policing the airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence." The agency's reasons for recording all these radio programs don't get any clearer as the news report goes on. No doubt that is intentional.

Where are all the civil libertarians? If this were G.W., the sh** would be hitting the proverbial fan. Also, the state-run media would be up in arms, liberals in Congress would be running toward the cameras and microphones. Amazing it is not, when the libs and progressives are in charge, non of this civil liberty stuff really matters.

>>Funny that they leave out the crucial bit, and dont explain what they want evidence *of*.

In communist countries, they call it “Counter-revolutionary speech” or “Reactionary speech”. They’ll build an archive of “Enemies of the People” that they will use after the glorious workers’ revolution. They’re probably archiving everything from FR to Facebook too.

Who cares!! Post proud. Speak proud. If the Marxists (or do we just call them Soroists now??) from ACORN, OWS, and the White House take over America to the point where the FBI/DHS can use this information to start rounding up the dissidents, then we have bigger things to worry about than what we said back when America was still relatively free. We’re all armed. Let them learn that taking over DC, the universities, and a few major cities is a lot easier than conquering flyover country. “Molon Labe”, “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”, etc!

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posted on 10/15/2011 8:45:52 AM PDT
by Bryanw92
(The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government,

I think there is a big difference here. The NSA has for years been electronically eavesdropping on every electron transmitted in the world. Their purpose is primarily the safety and security of the US.

However, when organizations like the FBI use the pretext of public airwaves (or electronic media) as a means to gather evidence for “potential” evidence for future prosecution, they absolutely cross the line between a legitimate government and an oppressive government.

We are witnessing the return of the Gestapo - because that madman Weather Underground sympathizer Eric Holder hates white people. While the FBI is under control of Holder, its sister agency the DHS is under control of a lesbian that hates America as much as Eric Holder and Hussein Obama. We are in for some very nasty sh!t if this halfrican is reelected.

I’ve often thought that some of the more, shall we say, provocative or incendiary comments I’ve read from time to time (ie, “Kill all the Muslims!”, “Civil War 2”, “Is it time to water the tree of liberty yet?”) are probably posted by agent provocateurs from the FBI trying to get someone so worked up they actually go out and do something horribly, horribly stupid.

Classic COINTEL.

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posted on 10/15/2011 8:51:57 AM PDT
by AnAmericanAbroad
(It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)

When government gets too big, nonsense such as this is inevitable. Omama’s paranoia just makes it worse. It starts as a half million dollars and will balloon as all government projects do. Vote for candidates that are for smaller government, less taxes (never feed the beast) and limited government as set out in the Constitution before the courts mis-interpreted it to allow all sorts of intrusive powers.

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posted on 10/15/2011 8:53:09 AM PDT
by RicocheT
(Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)

Don't most of these talk shows have webpages with searchable, archived transcripts? I know that Rush Limbaugh has one, as do many others. Or is this leak simply a way of telling the people who would call into these shows, "You are being watched"

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posted on 10/15/2011 8:53:26 AM PDT
by jmcenanly
(Things will be better in 2013)

Funny that they leave out the crucial bit, and dont explain what they want evidence *of*.

Evidence of the need for further government evidence gathering and intervention. This is ham handed intimidation like the toll free hot lines. It is a warning that you better watch your step if you speak out against dear leader.

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posted on 10/15/2011 9:03:49 AM PDT
by oldbrowser
(Democrats have no superego.)

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